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My uncle had one when I was a kid, living in rural Serbia in the 90's meant that this one Yugo basically kept 50-100 people and their homes provided with goods from the town. Flour, fruits and vegetables, sunflower oil - all of that in a Yugo, the little car that could. Hell, craziest memory was him transporting a couple of sheep in the back seat. I remember vividly how badly the car smelled, he just left it in his garage for a couple of weeks (garage was more akin to a shed) with windows down and the smell faded away. He also transported a fuckton of raspberries in baskets on top of the car, he had that extra thingy for transporting goods. Good stuff.

Yugo got my mama through an old school “the woman has nothing when she leaves” divorce. It was the only vehicle she could afford. Got her to work and back, and got us to school and the sitter. I cant speak an ill word about it.

Well maintained Yugo’s were generally reliable cars. I usually see beaters in all these videos. The shift linkage was a common issue that was easily resolved with a couple bolts added to that problem and significantly improved shift feel. The 1.3L drivetrain in the later Yugo’s was highly superior in power and performance as well.

There were TWO kinds of Yugos. Ones that fell apart and broke down all the time and ones that were of superior quality and rarely ever broke down. There was NO, "In Between". I owned one that practically never failed me, ever.

This was my first car. I bought it for $175 in 1992. 😂 Everyone at school loved that car, too. I was a legend.

Here are some Yugo jokes, they are originaly in Serbo-Croatian, so i hope it doesent get lost in translation: -Why does a Yugo have a rear view defroster ? Because yo dont get cold hands in the winter when you push it. -Yugo is a 5 person car, 1 drives, the other 4 push it. -What do you call a Yugo with a flat tire ? Totalled. -How do you increase the value of a Yugo when you sell it ? Leave a full tank of gas. -Whats a difference between a Yugo sport and a regular ? The sport ones driver is wearing Nikes. -How does a Yugo go faster up a hill ? You kick out the passengers. -What do you call a Yugo on top of a hill ? A miracle. -What is a difference between a Yugo and a police station ? You are less ashamed of exiting a police station.

Fun fact: Zastava makes some of the finest AK-47s on the market

i love how someone managed to take care of the car for 30 years and donut fucks it up in ten minutes

A guy goes into an auto parts store and asks "Can I get windshield wipers for my Yugo? The guy thinks for a second and says "That sounds like an even swap"

My dad had an USA market Yugo, but he tuned it, lowered the suspensions, tinted the windows and everything, and it drove up to 180kmh, and also many people had yugos in my country and they had even travelled with them, going to vacations to other countries so the yugos weren't that much of a fail, and as another guy in the comments said, you can fix it yourself on the side of the road😂

I worked for Delta, there was a large YUGO following. They were cheap commuters. One of the guys needed to replace the exhaust. Party date was made. They threw down and old mattress. Pulled the mirror and rolled it on it's side.

I'm from Serbia and I love this car. Never drove it, but my uncle did when I was a kid, we went on so many road trips in this thing, it was awesome. Of course it's not very safe or well built, or comfortable, but it was cheap. And really easy to repair, a lot of people did minor repairs by themselves, and you can still find parts anywhere. If you live in a much richer country, you might not understand, but for us (especially in the 90s) it was a special vehicle, and we're proud of it.

I’m so proud that you actually reviewed a Yugo. As a Serbian, this warms my heart so much, generations used the Yugo and people loved it. Even today you can see people driving them, and you can buy them for $50 in some cases. Cheers guys!

I remember when my brother owned and drove a Yugo haha. He modded it to have a motorcycle muffler just to make fun of all the guys who do that shit to compensate for what they don't have, which meant you could hear him coming from a mile away, LITERALLY. It was the funniest and coolest thing to me, because we'd be waiting for him to show up in our house, and you'd know when it was time to finish anything you needed to to get ready, so you could get outside and wait for a few minutes if you wanted to lol. Hell, I remember how excited and giddy I always got whenever I heard it from that mile away, and would sprint around the house yelling "Mario's coming!" Good memories.

I'm from former Yugoslavia and this car is known here as the AK-47 of cars. Basically you can abuse it to all hell and it will still work (granted with some DIY repairs). Cheap piece of shit that refused to kick the bucket permanently. It's a magnificent car in a way. I instantly recognized it from the thumbnail and chuckled thinking "yeah, it would be the Yugo alright". Just to highlight the experience of riding a Yugo is, there is a comedic sketch video in Serbian. A hillbilly gets pulled over by police. When they try to measure his alcohol level, he nearly breaks the national record. The cops ask the guy if he is crazy and the guy just shrugs and responds "the car is made by design to be driven drunk, it's too stressful sober". Also the transmission bit, everyone jokes here you didn't need to go to the gym if you drove a Yugo, the transmission was enough of a workout in itself and you needed some serious strength to drive it.

The best bumper sticker I ever saw on a Yugo “If you hit me, we both die.” 😂

I’m from the Former Yugoslavia and this car got my family through the war, from 1991 all the way until we came to the United States. I will buy this car from you when you are done with your videos. Also, we were never under the influence of the USSR. We were a unique communist country where private companies still existed and social programs worked. We just didn’t know how to get along with each other.

I love how in the movie Drowning Mona, everyone in that small town drove a Yugo. As my aunt would say, "With a Yugo, You Go nowhere"

I had one of these in the UK in 1992 while at Uni. The worst part was the conversion to right hand drive, as the wipers were still set up for left hand drive. Otherwise I had no problems with it at all. It would sit on the UK motorway at 75mph quite happily. Also started in any cold weather, with a quick cold start spray into the air intake. Was an awful pea soup green colour though

The yugo had an optional rear defroster which was really good for keeping your hands warm when pushing it

I drove Yugo for 7 years with 0.904 L engine ...45hp ....it was always braking down but you can fix it yourself by the road....not like cars this days It was a crappy car but lots of fun. Thank you for this episode , cheers !

I bought a new blue one with ac in 1988. Never had any problems. Drove it for ten years.

NATO bombed the Yugoslavian factory in the 90s and the Yugo disappeared forever.

In high school, my good friend had one of these in white. One night, when taking a lefthand turn, his entire fuse box fell out from underneath the dashboard. Quality workmanship!

You guys should come over and drive mine LOL

Let me explain something, I drove this lemon for 5 years, loved it really, firstly it runs on fumes,0 to 60 eventually, you could drive it with the second gear broken, the users manual came with the bus schedule because it broke like all the time, the back glass had warmers so you can push it in the winter, the car was made to rival wolksvagen golf, which the car failed miserably, but hey after you got to know your yugo you would be able to fix it yourself in no time, mine had a manual switch for the cooler because my thermostat broke and that was fine 😂

It’s first year in America, sold more than the Volkswagen Bug did. America wanted a small cheap car to drive. Bill Clinton bombed the factory. I met a few mechanics from Greece, they said the Yogo was extremely popular at the time overseas. I had one, no issues. A truck hit me in the rear. The insurance company totaled it.

Now it needs to be tuned up, and kitted out, and made in to the best little Yugo that ever existed.

You guys should do a Yugo build. Engine swap, transmission, suspension etc.

Yugo is the quintessential DIY mechanic car. It WILL make a handyman of you, believe me😅

I've had the displeasure of working on a couple of these fairly extensively. The damned things never wanted to stay running. Between the carb trying desperately to fall out of tune, the fuel tank trying to feed the engine rust, the random electrical ghosts, and the body panels and interior literally falling apart for no reason, these things were a nightmare. 😂

Justin is slowly becoming my favorite presenter on Donut the dude is hilarious.

Having had a 900cc Fiat 127 and loved it's 'thrashability' I bought a brand new Yugo in 1984, here in the UK they were doing a killer deal where you could part exchange ANY car and get £1200 off of the price meaning the car cost me about £2400 on the road with a 3 year warranty, it was great and came with body coloured bumpers, spoiler, sunroof, alloy wheels and it looked really sporty (it was 1984) I loved it until one day on a 3 lane highway i was in the middle lane doing about 70, I had to do a real emergency stop, the thing did a 180 in the blink of an eye, we didn't hit anything but ended up looking at the front of the car behind. I took it to the dealer who took it for a test...he came back white as a sheet and took the car in for repair, apparently there was a master cylinder fault and it had no rear brakes at all, sadly after hitting a kerb in the ice and snow the car was bent out of shape and 'mysteriously' caught fire later that evening. there ended my Yugo experience but as a thrashable little car it was great and very cheap to run. If you understand the appeal of roaring about in tiny Italian cars then you'd love the Yugo.

I think each Yugo was story on its own. Mine had problem with gear shifter, the stick was getting stuck. Couldn't change gear. Also was shutting down when it wanted, say on a upward piece of road, which was scary. Windows weren't really air proof. In winter, wind was blowing from multiple sides. Also, had a problem with starting up the engine. It didn't want to start... :) But was fun. Nice video. My father brought it to the junk yard, sadly. I really like the simple design of it, overall. If it had relieable enigine and transmision, and mehcanical parts, it would have been a hit!

In early 1985, I purchased a 1979 Fiat 128 for $1,300. VERY similar to a Yugo. Drove it for 9 years collecting approximately $3,000 from insurance companies whose policy holders ran into it on a regular basis. That thing was a magnet for other cars. Finally, in December 1993, the rear end was "explored" by a 16-year-old driving dad's Ford Explorer. His bumper went right over the Fiat's hefty aluminum bumpers (mounted on shock absorbers) and the trunk became the crumple zone. His insurance company totaled out the car handing me a check for $1,600. If nothing else that "car magnet" was a money maker. By the way, at the time my wife was a waitress at a Minneapolis restaurant that closed at 1:00 a.m. That car NEVER stranded her in the parking lot.

My grandpa had 3 Yugos at one time. 1 he drove and 2 others for parts. The one he drove from what i remember wasnt horrible. He knew a guy in Florida that had 200k miles on one. I guess you got what you paid for when you bought a Yugo

I had a 1989 Yugo!!!! Honestly, back in the 90's got 75 mpg, was like a sardine can, mine was rally blue. Best $1500 I ever spent. Only ever had to replace the starter and a rim, which was hard to find and only a 12" or 13" rim that I found at a wrecking yard. Glad you reviewed it!

I've drive Yugo 55 for 10 years borrowed from my uncle, without single issue, my uncle drove it over 20 years before me without any issue. It was Yugo 55 for USA market but my uncle bought it in Serbia brand new. I have returned it and my brother sold it after few years for like 700USD back in 2014. Technically, car was 35 years old when sold and it was in great condition. Top speed was like 90mhp and it was able to accelerate from 0-60mph in 14 seconds, ofc it was have 5 gears transmission installed as an additional accessory when bought brand new :D The one and only issue it have, it was braking disc and pads replacement once at while like every 5 years, just make sure to have fresh oil, fuel filters, oil filters, air filters, belts and everything connected for an regular small service after 10000 miles and you're good to go :D

I attended a consumer survey back when the Yugo first came out. We didn’t drive the cars but examined them in detail. Two things that stuck in my mind were the runs in the paint and the seats that seemed to be made out of cheap terrycloth beach towels. I did use some of the money from this gig to buy a copy of the very first issue of Automobile Magazine. I wish I still had that mag…

There is only one thing I need in my life now. A Super Yugo. A Yugo with as many flaws as possible corrected while looking as stock as possible with a 0-60 under 10 seconds.

In the name of all Yugoslavia nostalgics, THANK YOU for this video! You guys in the US could never understand what this car meant for us, but I'm really thankful that you tried to put it into context.

I had one for awhile in Croatia. It was shit, however, parts cost less than beer and you could work on them pretty drunk. Super simple to figure out and quickly figure it out. This one does seem to be rougher shape. In total over two years i was only into it like$400 Cad.

Any car that was engineered in less than optimal conditions and allowed the average person a new found sense of freedom is in my opinion a success. If you look at the cars of Formula Easter and other various former Soviet Bloc countries they made something out of nothing which is quite impressive.

Funny thing , here in my country (Costa Rica) , we joke around saying that a Yugo is a car that will last you your whole lifetime , cause once you buy it , there's no way anybody else is gonna buy it off from you even if you are selling it cheap 😅. Haven't seen any of those in the past recent years though , no wonder why !

There used to be a junkyard in Las Vegas with dozens of yugos. Had a friend that was really into them and did a bunch of upgrades since iirc it is Fiat based. He got a parking ticket once and the ticket said "vw of some kind"

Balkan guy here and you'd be surprised how many Yugos are still on the roads over here even today. Throughout all of former Yugoslavia people still drive them and they are sturdy and reliable. It's still a bad poor person's car and a sign of how poor our societies are today, but this car is a memory for many of our parents and grandparents and heck, even us born in the 90s.

This car actually saved a lot of lifes in the early 90´s.

My neighbor is a very wealthy men and he still drives the same Yugo I remember him having 25 years ago. It's probably even older than that. Mad respect to the old guy.

I remember seeing a modded Yugo with a tube frame, tubbed rear slicks, a NOS'd 351 and a BIG shiny wing. Years later I still lol at the thought of it.

We were a family of four; mom, dad, sis (9), and me (11). Dad bought a Yugo in 1986 and we went from Long Island to Disney World Orlando and back with absolutely no problems...I don't even remember being uncomfortable in the back seat with my sis. A year later we went to Virginia, also from L.I. and back again in the same Yugo.

My Yugo/Croat grandfather had a Yugo and my (Dutch) father can only tell the funniest of stories about it. That tiny car got my family sometimes 5 adults at the same times up and down steep mountain inclines, with my grandfather sweating profusely behind the steering wheel with a wet towel around his neck as AC. That car was as hard working as the person behind the wheel. Nedostaješ mi nonno

One of my best friend's first vehicle was an '87 Yugo', bought in 1992. We once packed it with 4 friends in total and **TRIED** to get the needle to 100mph. It simply would not crack 97mph and it had taken 9 miles on the highway to even reach that. 😂 Good times, right? I also remember when his grandparents bought him a steering wheel lock for it ("The CLUB", remember that one!) and I told him to be careful because someone might break into his car and steal "The CLUB" 😁

Funny thing about the Yugo is that I take it to car shows and it gets more attention than any Ferrari or Lambo 🤣 EVERYONE wants to sit in it.

Great video! I like that you went into the history a bit. Even Top Gear when they featured eastern block cars was just like "These thing suck! These are bad! Boo! So bad!". Never went into detail about why they were the way they were.

Very funny review. I did actually test-drive a brand new one in the 80's. The plus point was it made the Lada and Skoda(with rear engine) look really good. I did not buy one

When you learn to drive on a Yugo, you can drive anything afterwards. I learned when I was 7-8 I think. Good times, man

Great video guys! Always fun to see cars from my country (Serbia). Here's a bit of local insight. Over the years the Yugo has become somewhat of a cultural icon over here, even though up until about 10 years ago you could see them very regularly on the street. Everybody is aware that it's objectively a very limited car to say the least, but on the other hand everybody knew how to work on them a bit or at least knew someone who did, spare parts were everywhere, fuel economy was fantastic, and when not pushed to 60mph 😂 they were very reliable. I completed my driving lessons on a Yugo in 2012 and even had a Yugo for a bit after that. That specimen was completely rusted, couldn't even get it into 5th gear, never drove it above 40mph, and during winter when coming to a stop I'd put in neutral and while breaking would pump the throttle until moving again, just so it wouldn't turn off from the cold. But mine was a truly horrific example, well maintained ones functioned without a hitch even after 35 years. And that's the beauty of it, it was something made here that everyone had the same trouble with, but something everyone was proud of. I have driven many different cars after this Yugo but nothing really captured the effort and connection needed to move a vehicle like the Yugo did. It has a very special place in my heart and thank you again for featuring it Donut. Greeting from Serbia!

Zastava makes some pretty cool stuff, don't let the Yugo fool you.

Still got my Yugo GVX, and as of this summer it even survived a tornado without a scratch. This car just spites God. It refuses to die. My Yugo is just one that will probably outlive me.

The Yugo still has a sick style akin to an older civic. Seems like a great candidate for an engine swap and some other goodies

Tavarish rebuilt a Yugo once, I don't know what happened after it went to the person he was doing it for, but he fixed some of the big issues with the car

I had this car back in Germany, and I bought it very cheaply. It served me and later my nephew for 6 years. It was fast and had a very low fuel consumption. It is one of the cheapest cars to maintain.

I bought a Yugo GV brand new at a dealership in Marquette, MI practically "giving" them away in 1986. I paid $3200 NEW. Drove it until 1996. It was one of the BEST cars I ever owned (that's not a joke). It had a few quirks like, the TINY brake pads had to be replaced often and it went through a couple starter solenoids, but that was it. Period. Started and ran PERFECTLY every time and got upwards of 40+ MPG. And I absolutely BEAT THE LIVING HELL outta' this car. It took every punch and kept going. EDIT: What I didn't tell you, was that the Dealership was having trouble selling them and that the $3200 got you TWO Yugos. It was "Buy One Get One FREE". I had no use for or ability to keep/sell two Yugos, so I just took the one.

In high school, I had a job that, if needed, the boss would let us use his Yugo for local deliveries. I remember having to drive it like a race car just to keep up with traffic. And if you honked the horn a bit too hard, the front of the steering wheel would pop off into your lap. Great memories.

I think this is a bit harsh. There was nothing wrong with the original Fiat design, apart from being 20 years out of date by the time Yugo started making them. Even Zavasta's execution of the design wasn't that bad. Tough and reliable push rod engine, the car was made out of extremely high quality steel that puts many if its contemporaries to shame, there is a story about this which us directly linked to the corrosion that Lancia was hit by at the time. Essentially Yugoslavia had sold Italy steel and coal in exchange for agricultural and industrial engineering and tech including the license to build obsolete Fiats. The Yugoslavs had the last laugh though because they have Italy appalling quality steel and coal, keeping the good stuff for themselves. This destroyed the reputation of Lancia in the UK and other northern European countries where corrosion is an issue. Meanwhile Yugos had a phenomenal reputation for durability. We literally pulled Yugo 45 out of a field in Yorkshire, where it had sat for 25 years of British Winters, it had lost most of its paint on the off side V pillar and there was Zero and I mean Zero corrosion on the exposed steel. This was because they were built with extremely high quality steel. Yes, they were desperately unfashionable and very dated and the interiors were made of a white caramel flavored chocolate called Caramac. BUT they were cheap, reliable, tough and easy to work on. Surprisingly popular with mechanics in the UK in the 1980s. You Americans didn't have to suffer the Russian and Polish cars we were sold which were considerably worse than the Yugo. So dated, unfashionable and primitive for the time.. yes... but the worst car ever... no, there was nothing wrong with the fundamental design and I have seen worse build quality in some of the Brirish cars of the 1970 and early 1980s during the dreadful nationalization days.

Yugo'N-B- walking when "driving" a yugo! 😂😂😂

You need to engine swap this, new transmission, new suspension, new everything! Make this into a sleeper

Thank you guys for putting this car in context. Sure, it's got a lot of problems, but it is an important example of car culture from the Cold War era.

Guys, nice concepted video. Yet as a Zastava historian and owner of 1979 model 101, I must point out that if you had a better maintained Yugo, you would be able to see the true side of Yugo. Second point is your comment on Yugoslavia workers position and production conditions. Zastava had a special line for producing Yugo America. Workers were paid good and the line itself was excellent. We were not land of communism, but land of Tito's socialism - completely different concept. As for performances - your Yugo has two barrel Weber carb, if you have checked it out and perhaps disconect emmission control systems it would be roarring. Also, the wheels on it have large tyres - Yugo is designed for 145/80/ R 13 (european radial) tyres. If you put larger wheel, engine can't compensate. So it was not the best car, true that, but far from the worst.

I absolutely love that during the acceleration test, the speedometer graphic has a broken needle just like the car they are in. Props to the editor of this video.

It's amazing that people lined up to buy Yugo, given the low low price of 4.5K (about $13.2K in today's moolah) and how lumpy Detroit was after the thing called Oil Crisis. And when the car actually came, it completely blown away, not in terms of expectations, but rather the car itself.

Don't forget the Ford mid 60's Cortina. Still have an inspection card for which it failed everything. Cost $30. One day the shift lever broke off. Went Honda. Honda only.

When the Yugo was $3990, Hyundai's first car was $4995.

My old car! Glad Mike let you guys review it 😆The death steer! This car was actually stolen from me and I found it less then a mile away, guess the thieves felt the same way as you guys. When I first got it from this exporter guy in Compton the brakes lit on fire just going around the block. To be fair there was a lot of cobwebs, had to get a bucket of water and splash them down. The other great part of the Yugo is the burnt cotton candy interior smell!

A high school friend of mine, shout out to Tami S, had a blue Yugo. It was the worst! It had room for three in the back, but the bumper would drag on the ground if you put anybody bigger than a five year old back there. She was driving one day, and the shifter came right out. No noise or nothing. She looked at me like "what do I do?" That car got us all around town though, God bless it.

There is also one more Yugo category - extremely tuned Yugo with over 230hp!

Im glad you really brought up that it was NEVER made to be sold here in the US for US roads, but was important for the country. A lot of highways didn't have speed limits much higher than 50mph back then, and only super highways. Its also a really old car trying to compare to modern cars

I owned Yugo 55A. It was a fun car to own. Never knew what could happen, but easy to repair. Going up hill was always a challenge, had to make sure you use the right gear well in advance. Golf Gen 1 and 2 were made in Yugoslavia too.

"It's a nugget. And I love it!" - Dankpods

Thank you for the two seconds of VW Fox content, I appreciate it. But a couple random corrections. Apé has an accent and should be pronounced appropriately. Malcom Bricklin is American. The Bricklin car was made in New Brunswick Canada due to a favourable deal he swung with the government there. The Subaru Justy was not the last vehicle with a carburetor, the last was the Izusu pickup in 1994. The base Honda Prelude, Buick and Oldsmobile station wagons, Jeep Grand Wagoneer, and Ford Crown Victoria also all had carbs into 1990 or 1991 in certain low end specifications.

I had an 87 Yugo for 10 years...NEVER broke down. Great little car IF you took care of it. Definately not fast but neither were the Ford Escorts and Chevettes of the same era...in fact my mom had an 85 Escort and it was a DOG compared to the Yugo.

it would be interesting to see comparison of few '80 cars in the same state of neglection and lack of maintenance. I think that yugo will score the same as others. and I can't comprehend how did you expected different outcome with that type of driving

Could you guys please do an Up to Speed on the Subaru Justy you mentioned at 10:19? I’ve been waiting so long and you finally mentioned it. On top of being the last carbureted vehicle sold in the US it’s probably one of the rarest vehicles in America now and I’d love to see what you guys at Donut could dig up on it.

I remember when this car came out and they even had a super rare convertible version too. I think this car brand new was under 4k back in like 1987.

I actually had the same thing that happened to you happen in my Yugo with the transmission linkage breaking. I was able to crawl under the car and fix it with a paper clip and never had a problem again lol.

We used to say the electric defroster element on the back window was to keep your hands warm while pushing it.

I drove a Yugo 55 for almost 10 years and I loved that car. Yes, it was a piece of junk, but she drove me everywhere I went. You have to understand that the worker's salary at the time was about $300. Zastava was aware of this and kept the mechanics as simple as possible so drivers could fix it themselves. Almost every neighborhood in the former Yugoslavia had a garage or two where you could fix a car for the price of two cases of beer. If your side mirror, the wiper, fell off, which used to happen 😂, you'd go to the store and buy a new part for $10-$15 and replace it yourself. In fact, everything I learned about cars, I learned thanks to the Yugo.

Hi from Serbia guys, i daily drive a 82 Yugo 45 for two years now. The most comical thing is that it is the most reliable car that I ever had, for two years of driving i spent around 50$ on maintenance and the car was bought for 450$. Parts are extemely cheap here and still can be found. A drunk friend recently broke the handle for rolling down the passenger window, a few days later i bought it for 200 dinars (1.80$). Gear linkage is a known issue and almost everyone fixes it by making a custom bracket, after that you are at peace. Quallity varries by the year of production due to wars on the balkan and metal quallity, models prior to '90 were higher quallity that the newer models. Highest speed i got it to is 120km/h but it can hold 100kmh (60mph) on the highway all day long.

As a guy born in Yugoslavia, i'd like to say thank you for reviewing this monstrosity

Kudos to the whole Donut squad on the continual improvement of the quality of your videos. From the video production to the on screen guys, I'm sure your channel will be studied in the future on how to build a brand and develop a team.

My family owned a Yugo from brand new back in 1995 till 20-something. In that time, it had some major issues mainly due to driver error/not being maintained properly. Those would include: pissing all of its oil through the oil pan plug bc someone drove it in 3rd gear at 50mph while hauling a loaded trailer, a broken rear leaf spring hanger, overheating due to a faulty thermostat. And the worst part? The car still kept going. To be fair, you have to be lucky to get a good Yugo. Earlier models had issues with engines, ones made during the war were overall the worst with both chassis and engine issues, and the later Koral In models have very soft chassis, almost like they're made out of cheese slices. But they still keep going. Right now, they're the most affordable entry platform into car ownership and modifying here in the Balkans

I wonder if they'll bring it back in another episode and beef it up with power Would love to see that Still, glad the ol' Yugo got some attention, great video!

My mates mum had one We were poor, people thought she was doing well because she had a car. We went all over in it, she used to take us to the coast, to ice skating, football, anywhere. It sometimes struggled to start and didn't like the winter. Not fast, stylish or reliable but it gave us so much freedom. I loved that car, it was shit, but it was awesome.

It looks like it could be a pretty sick car, with a ton of mods.

Fun fact: The last "similar" Yugo (the 794428th) rolled out from the factory on the 11th of November 2008.

My father had 2 Yugos given to him in the late 90's. Us kids would drive them in the woods, through the cow pasture, through people's yards, jumped hills and would haul loads of dirt and other garbage in the back. We acted a fool with them. They actually took a lot of abuse. Good times!

Very few small, cheap, family cars of the Yugo design era had plastic bits covering the cabin gubbins... at least in Europe. It may have been different in the decadent USA, but the Yugo interior is pretty much par for the course it was playing on.

My mom had a gvx and it was a good car, rolled it in the snow and still drove fine, no glass was broken just knocked the mirrors off. She'd still be driving it if she could have gotten parts for it. Lasted 15years at least

I had a Yugo as my first car . A farmer went into the back of it at low speed with their 4x4- completely caved in the back of it . They had scratches to their grill .